Rare Gems <sm> August 1990
by David Wright

       Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
               --Oscar Wilde

       There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire
someone, or forbid your kids to do it.  --Monta Crane

       Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world
owes you nothing.  It was here first.  --Mark Twain

       Oh, Helen!  You're pregnant?  That's wonderful!...  At first, I
was taking you quite literally when you said you had one in the oven.
       --One witch to another, "The Far Side"

       Nazis.  I hate these guys.
               --Indiana  Jones, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"

       Hey!  I'm TRYING to pass the potatoes!...  Remember, my forearms
are just as useless as yours!
       --Father Tyranosaurus Rex to family, "The Far Side"

       Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.  --
Unknown

       You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of
focus.
               --Mark Twain

       We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb
and clap as they go by.  --Will Rogers

       It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in
charge.  Who is "they"?  I don't know.  Nobody knows.  Not even "they"
themselves.
       --Joseph Heller

       Burt Reynolds once asked me out.  I was in his room.
-- Phyllis Diller

       He promised me earrings, but he only pierced my ears.
-- Arabian saying

       I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being
required by law to sleep with me every night.  --Carrie Snow

       Look!  Behind ya!  Ain't that Lou Ferrigno?!
               --The Incredible Hulk to The Incredible Hulk,
                 "The Incredible Hulk" #373

       I am a marvelous housekeeper.  Every time I leave a man I keep
his house.  --Zsa Zsa Gabor

       I take my children everywhere, but the always find their way
back home.  --Robert Orben

       The man who invented the eraser had the human race pretty well
sized up.  --Unknown

       I'm getting too old to hit attractive men over the head and
carry them off.  And the sad part is, I'm so old that's the only way I
can get them!            --Savil, "Magic's Price" by Mercedes Lackey

       You can't wash off blood with blood.  --Zen proverb

       If you're not going to kill me, I have things to do.
               --Colin Friels, "Darkman"

       I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking.  He called me
a quitter.  --Steven Pearl

       At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free
and charge five dollars for the second glass.  The refill contained the
antidote.
       --Emo Philips

       My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I
never saw any reason to limit myself.  --Emo Philips

       We've got to go -forward- to the future, and -past- to the...
<struggled pause>  ...-back-.
       --Vice Pres. Dan Quayle, with broad gestures

       The guys came by to have some fun.  They'll come and stay all
night, I fear.  But I know how to make them run.  I serve them all
generic beer.
       --"Batch" strip (Marshall & Cravens)

       If women reaching their sexual peak at age 34 while men reach it
at 18 is not proof that God is a woman, then I don't know what is.  --
Peter David

       I had a friend who told me he was tired of writing for nothing.
He was going to go to California and write for money.  And he did.  He
moved to California and I still get letters from him saying, "Please
send me money."
       --Peter David

       The Pillsbury Dough Boy Serves Six will not be shown at this
time...
               --"You Can't Do That On Television!"

       The Vegans.  They count MILK as meat.  EGGS is meat, CHEESE is
meat, FISH is meat, BACON'S meat...  They won't even eat SPAM!
       --Christine's mother, "Big Numbers" #2 by Alan Moore